Ashley House and Attached Railings
ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, EXETER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384810
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, EXETER ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-01-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/13760/07
- Rights:
- © Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384810
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, EXETER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, EXETER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9457510896
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SW EXETER ROAD, Ashley
848-1/4/42 (West side)
12/02/52 Ashley House and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CREDITON ROAD
Ashley House)
II
Small country house. Early C19, possibly a remodelling of the
C18 house recorded as being on this site (deeds from 1754).
Stucco with stucco impost and 1st-floor sill bands; dry slate
roofs, pyramidal over entrance bays; 2 brick stacks, 2
rendered stacks.
PLAN: L-shaped plan plus quadrant-plan entrance front
containing a large entrance and stair hall virtually filling
the angle; parlour in front of kitchen to left-hand wing;
principal parlour with bowed rear end to other wing, part of
the rounded spaces behind the bow containing as cupboards
facing onto a passage.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical 3-window bowed
entrance front. Original bowed hornless sashes with thin
glazing bars, those to ground floor with fanlight heads in
round-arched openings. Similar fanlight to central doorway
with pair of panelled and glazed doors; sidelights which
continue as fanlight surround; tripartite basement sashes
(blind lights flanking steps). Basement as plinth, impost band
which breaks back into the recessed window panels, sill band
to 1st-floor windows and moulded eaves cornice.
Front ends of wings at left and right of bowed entrance have
projecting canted bays with Gothic traceried heads to the
sashes. Right-hand return has passage doorway with 6-panel
door and traceried overlight.
INTERIOR: has most of its original features including: L-plan
staircase with open well curved to the landing, wreathed
mahogany handrail over newel and stick balusters; doorways
with moulded architraves and 6-panel doors with inner beaded
panels; marble chimneypieces with consoles and plaster band
with reeded moulding to principal parlour.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: curved flights of freestone steps from
left and right of doorway to landing in front of doorway and
with wrought-iron railings to either side.
Listing NGR: SS9460010872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485269
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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